Ann Craven: Birds We Know installation view (all images courtesy of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art; photograph by Dave Clough) ROCKLAND, Maine — Birds have a long and varied history in art, ...

Careful what you say in front of Edgar Heap of Birds. It could end up in a painting. Since the 1970s, the artist has used words in ways both pointed and wry to create installations that riff on funny ...

Shea Hembrey, who just completed an artist fellowship at the University of Iowa, creates “landscape paintings” using colorful soil supplements to plant trees and promote native bird conservation. Some ...

In a recent exhibition at the Anchorlight Gallery in Raleigh, artist Saba Taj channeled the emotional pain they felt over the violence in Gaza since Oct. 7 into a series of paintings that feature ...

Leonardo da Vinci during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the “universal man,” at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But ...

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is internationally renowned for the palpable sense of angst and anguish in his Expressionist and Symbolist works. But fans of his might feel similarly upon learning ...

Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink on paper, 19 × 508 7/8 inches (collection of the Tianjin Museum) A rare exhibition of Chinese painting in Manhattan is drawing acclaim ...

After reading about Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s Birds in Art, Jessica Prince took a trip to view the annual exhibition in Wisconsin. Two decades later Prince is preparing for the first stop of ...

When art teacher Toni Kahler envisioned the next big project for her students at Tualatin Valley Academy, birds, large canvasses and gel paints came to mind. "When I think about what I want to plan, I ...

Art typically seems like a human activity, tied to culture, symbols, and personal expression. Yet a small group of animals has created paintings and designs that sold for surprising sums. Their work ...